January 29, 2013 – 8:00 am
I have previously posted elsewhere about how similar the failures in indigenous policy and development (particularly foreign aid) policy have been. Remarkably similar, indeed. They also show some distinct similarities to the more unfortunate effects of welfare provision. (By ‘welfare provision’ I do not mean the aged pension or health or education services; I am talking […]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Australia, Economics, England, History, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Public Policy, The Left, The Right, Welfare
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Tagged afghanistan, ALP, Amerindians, Anglo-Saxon law, Arnhem land, Assizes, Australian Aborigines, canon law, china, cliodynamics, collectivisation, common law, Commonwealth Intervention, Curley effect, Danelaw, development policy, Earl Ferrers, Elinor Ostrom, farming, foragers, foreign aid, france, free riding, Glenn Reynolds, Henry II, House of Elders, house of lords, human capital, hunter-gatherers, Immigration, indigenous policy, iraq, japan, Jesse Helms, Lapps, magna carta, narcissism, Norman law, North American colonies, Peter Turchin, singapore, sit down money, Somaliland, Thomas Hobbes, time horizons, trial by jury, Vernon Smith
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January 28, 2013 – 2:12 am
In one of those eccentricities of time and date, Burns Night in Scotland (January 25) shades into Australia Day (January 26), especially for anyone using social media. This made for a very odd Friday evening this last week while I was working late. I saw Scots cheerfully celebrating their country’s greatest poet and the bonhomie […]
January 26, 2013 – 8:26 pm
I’m always interested in what people who are not totally devoted to a particular area of law think about certain cases. At the moment I’m working on the issue of proprietary remedies over bribes taken in breach of fiduciary duty. I’m going to put two scenarios to you (derived from the cases) and ask you […]
January 25, 2013 – 9:30 am
I rather like monarchy. I like the pomp and ceremony. I like the sense of continuity. (The Papacy, the Japanese monarchy, the English monarchy and the Danish monarchy are the oldest political institutions on the planet; the English coronation ceremony has elements that date back to Anglo-Saxon times.) I like monarchy’s capacity to separate the […]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in History, Law, Middle east
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Tagged Adam Garfinkle, afghanistan, al Assad, al-Saud, Alfonso IX, Anglo-Saxon, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Austro-Prussian War, Axis powers, Baharain, Cuba, Danish monarchy, Diana Princess of Wales, Egypt, Elliot Abrams, English monarchy, Fatima Zahra Mansouri, Frederick the Great, Great War, Hapsburg, Hassan II, Hohenzollern, Iran, iraq, Islamists, Japanese monarchy, Juche, Kim Family Regime, King Ernest Augustus of Hanover, King George V of Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover, Kingdom of Italy, libya, Macaulay, Mali, Mancur Olson, Marrakesh, Michael Totten, Mohammad V, Mohammad VI, Morocco, Mubarak, Nadia Bernoussi, Nicholas II, north korea, Otto von Bismarck, Papacy, Qaddafi, Queen Victoria, Romanov, Saddam Hussein, Salic law, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sufism, Sultan of Oman, Sunni, Syria, Syrian civil war, Taliban, Timbuktu, UN Security Council, War of the Austrian Succession, Yemen, Yemeni civil war
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January 24, 2013 – 9:30 am
First, a minor bit of boasting. I occasionally submit pieces to Agora, the journal of the History Teachers of Australia Victoria (HTAV). They are doing a “reprint” edition, the best of the last five years, and two of my essays will be included: Finding Patterns in Ancient Civilisations Agora No.3 Vol.43 2008 Discovery, Connection and […]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in History, Public Policy
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Tagged Adam Garfinkle, agora, Algerian Civil War, Bomber Offensive, Carter Administration, Cold War, Cold warriors, Great Patriotic War, HTAV, jihadi, Jihadi War, Leninism, Luftwaffe, mujahideen, nazi germany, Soviet-Afghan War, Zbiginiew Brzezinski
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January 22, 2013 – 5:51 pm
Prince Harry shot at Taliban insurgents during his time as an Army helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, he says. The prince, whose four-month deployment to the country has just ended, spoke about his role as an Apache co-pilot gunner, and whether he had killed. “Yeah, so lots of people have. The squadron’s been out here. Everyone’s […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Defence, Funnies, Media, Middle east, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged afghanistan, apache helicopter, Prince Harry, royal family, Taliban
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January 21, 2013 – 4:46 am
Sorry I haven’t been about very much. Short story: I am in Oxford and I do not presently have the resources to access anything except the visitor wireless network which generally bans (a) my work e-mail and (b) this site as deeply suspicious. Don’t ask. Hopefully to be rectified soon. But it is a red […]
January 19, 2013 – 6:40 am
If you’re going to win an argument or persuade someone to your point of view, it helps if you can tell a story. And by this I don’t mean any old story, but the sort of story that kept you awake at night as a kid, or made you cry, or made you afraid to […]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Books, Economics, Law, Saturday chit-chat
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Andrew Norton, Carl Sagan, Charles Dickens, Free to Choose, Jane Goodall, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paul Krugman, richard dawkins, Road to Serfdom, Salman Rushdie, Steven Horwitz, Steven Levitt, Steven Weinberg, Sweatshop labour, The Undercover Economist, tim harford, Tyler Cowen
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January 17, 2013 – 10:03 pm
Criminal prosecutions may take place after horse and pig meat were found in beefburgers, a minister has said. Food minister David Heath told MPs that the contamination was “almost certainly a matter of criminality”. Horse and pig DNA has been found in some burgers sold by Tesco, Iceland, Lidl and Aldi and Dunnes. On Thursday, […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Animals, Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Politics
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Tagged aldi, beefburgers, david heath, dunnes, food standards agency, horse meat, iceland, lidl, supermarkets, tesco
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January 16, 2013 – 9:30 am
Conservative humourist P J O’Rourke once observed, after flying over West and East Germany, that one should probably try to avoid public policy mistakes you can see from 20,000 feet up. Then there are public policy mistakes one can see from orbit. The two Germanys and the two Koreas constituted natural public policy experiments. Take […]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, Sexuality, Society, Technology
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Tagged Botswana, Castro regime, Chiang Kai-shek, china, CPC, Cuba, cult of personality, DPP, East Germany, hyperinflation, Ian Smith, KMT, Latin America, legitimacy, Mao Zedong, Nelson Mandela, North America, north korea, P J O'Rourke, property rights, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, south korea, Taiwan, West Germany, Xavier Marquez, Zimbabwe
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